Carly Fiorina falls off stage at Ted Cruz rally

While introducing Ted Cruz at a rally in Indiana on Sunday night, Carly Fiorina appeared to slip off the stage — a spill that sparked a debate over whether the Texas senator ignored his would-be running mate in her time of need.

Calling him “the next president of the United States,” Fiorina turned as Cruz and his wife, Heidi, emerged from behind a curtain at the event in Lafayette, Ind., then fell straight downward while the pair shook hands with supporters, disappearing from view.

The video of Fiorina’s fall quickly went viral, with some even questioning Cruz’s values.

But a video taken from a different angle by a supporter in the crowd showed that Heidi Cruz quickly came to Fiorina’s aid, and the former Hewlett-Packard chief executive quickly reappeared on stage, shaking hands with the pair she addressed as the “next first family.”

According to an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released this week, Cruz trails Republican frontrunner Donald Trump by 15 points among Indiana’s likely Republican primary voters.

Fiorina’s stage stumble aside, things haven’t exactly gone smoothly for Cruz during his swing through the Hoosier State.

Last week, Cruz was crucified by Twitter users after he referred to a basketball hoop as a “ring” during a rally in the gym where the classic 1986 sports film “Hoosiers” was shot.

At a campaign stop in Marion, Ind., on Monday, Cruz was met by several pro-Trump protesters, who called him “Lyin’ Ted” — Trump’s preferred nickname for Cruz — while they were confronted by the Texas senator.

“With all respect, Donald Trump is deceiving you. He is playing you for a chump,” Cruz told one protester.

And at a cafe in Carmel, Ind., on Monday, Heidi Cruz responded to a series of jokes Comedy Central host Larry Wilmore made at Saturday’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner in Washington, D.C., where he repeatedly called her husband “the Zodiac Killer.”

“Well, I’ve been married to him for 15 years, and I know pretty well who he is, so it doesn’t bother me at all. There’s a lot of garbage out there,” Heidi Cruz said. “It’s amazing how a lot of people are swayed by it. Part of it is, the news media is 24/7, and they don’t let up.”